Panchasikha

Mbh.12.217.13118	Once upon a time a great ascetic of the name of Panchasikha, the son of Kapila, having roamed over the whole world, arrived at Mithila.
Mbh.12.217.13129	Known as already said by the name of Panchasikha, he had approached one day a large concourse of Rishis following the Sankhya doctrines and enquired of them about the highest object of human acquisition, viz, the Unmanifest or that upon which the five Purushas or sheaths already named rest
Mbh.12.217.13133	Panchasikha became a disciple of Asuri.
Mbh.12.217.13137	Panchasikha was accepted by her as a son and he used to suck her breasts.
Mbh.12.217.13140	The latter also told me about the omniscience of Panchasikha.
Mbh.12.217.13141	Conversant with all courses of duty, Panchasikha, after having himself acquired high knowledge, came to Janaka and knowing that that king had equal reverence for all his preceptors, began to amaze that century of preceptors by an exposition of his doctrine fraught, with abundant reasons.
Mbh.12.217.13217	Having heard these words of Panchasikha that were free from deception, unconnected with delusion because discouraging sacrifices and other Vedic acts, highly salutary, and treating of the Soul, king Janadeva became filled with wonder, and prepared himself to address the Rishi once more
Mbh.12.218.13218	SECTION CCXIX Bhishma said, Janadeva of the race of Janaka, thus instructed by the great Rishi Panchasikha, once more asked him about the topic of existence or nonexistence after death'
Mbh.12.218.13225	Bhishma continued, Beholding the king enveloped in thick darkness, stupefied by error, and become helpless, the learned Panchasikha tranquillised him by once more addressing him in the following words, In this Emancipation the consummation is not Extinction.
Mbh.12.218.13315	King Janadeva, having listened to these words capable of yielding immortality and uttered by Panchasikha, and arriving at the truth after carefully reflecting upon everything that the latter had said, cast off his sorrows and lived on in the enjoyment of great felicity.
Mbh.12.218.13316	He who reads this discourse, O king, that treat of emancipation and who always reflects upon it, is never pained by any calamity, and freed from sorrow, attains to emancipation like Janadeva, the ruler of Mithila after his meeting with Panchasikha
Mbh.12.318.19884	I have heard discourses on this subject from Jaigishavya, Aista, Devala, the regenerate sage Parasara, the intelligent Varshaganya, Bhrigu, Panchasikha Kapila, Suka, Gautama, Arshtisena, the high-souled Garga, Narada, Asuri, the intelligent Paulastya, Sanatkumara, the high-souled Sukra, and my sire Kasyapa.
Mbh.12.319.19992	Bhishma said, In this connection is cited the old narrative of Panchasikha who was a Bhikshu in his practices and Janaka.
Mbh.12.319.19993	Once on a time Janaka, the ruler of the Videhas, questioned the great Rishi Panchasikha, who was the foremost of all persons conversant with the Vedas and who had all his doubts removed in respect of the purpose and import of all duties.
Mbh.12.319.19996	Thus addressed by the ruler of the Vedas the learned Panchasikha, conversant with all invisible things, answered, saying, There is no prevention of these two viz, decrepitude and death; nor is it true that cannot be prevented under any circumstances.
Mbh.12.320.20056	I am the beloved disciple of the high-souled and venerable Panchasikha, belonging to the mendicant order, of Parasara's race.
Mbh.12.320.20058	Wandering over the earth and pursuing the while the path that is pointed out by the scriptures, the learned Panchasikha formerly dwelt in happiness in my abode for a period of four months in the rainy season.
Mbh.12.320.20070	As a seed, fried on a pan or otherwise, becomes unable to sprout forth although the capacity for sprouting was there, after the same manner my understanding having been freed from the productive principle constituted by desire, by the instruction of the holy Panchasikha of the mendicant order, it no longer produces its fruit in the form of attachment to the object of the senses.
Mbh.12.320.20082	The high-souled Panchasikha, discarding both the opinion about knowledge and acts, regarded the third as the only means of Emancipation.
Mbh.12.320.20304	Hast thou heard the religion of Emancipation in its entirety from the lips of Panchasikha together with its means, its methods, its practices, and its conclusion
Mbh.12.320.20323	If, notwithstanding instructions of Panchasikha of the mendicant order, thy knowledge has become abstracted from the sensual objects to which it relates?

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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